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We are delighted to share that University of Oregon Libraries is joining Knowledge Commons as a sustaining member! 📚🦆🎉

Their participation will help us to continue supporting our community of researchers, educators, students and other creators as they discover open works, connect with their peers, and share their valuable contributions to our collective knowledge.

Learn about sustaining membership and how you can help support our vital infrastructure: https://about.hcommons.org/2025/05/22/university-of-oregon-libraries-joins-knowledge-commons-as-a-sustaining-member/

For today's #ResearchSpotlight, we have a conference poster by Alex Guo, Kye Campbell-Fox, and Jae Puckett that highlights the need for a better understanding of the compounded effects of minority stress on transgender and nonbinary POC. Check out the link to access the poster! https://works.hcommons.org/records/3ca41-egn34

Dark green flyer with white lettering that reads "The Differing Impacts of Discrimination, Victimization, and Rejection on POC and White Transgender and Non-Binary Individuals by Alex Guo, Kye Campbell-Fox and Jae Puckett"

Another #ResearchSpotlight Tuesday! Today's deposit is a journal article by Sammy Boy B. Guzman about teachers' mental health and the importance of preventing and utilizing coping strategies to lessen burnout and stress 🧑‍🏫 🧠 https://works.hcommons.org/records/p2pp3-hdh60#description-heading

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Today is Global Accessibility Awareness day! In honor of #GAAD, we're highlighting some of the behind-the-scenes work that Knowledge Commons has done or is doing to assess and improve our accessibility.

🔗 https://about.hcommons.org/2025/05/15/global-accessibility-awareness-day-update/

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Today's #ResearchSpotlight is a journal article by Michelle Abella-Cellona about a "tool aimed at assessing depression among parents." 😀 👍 https://works.hcommons.org/records/zsj13-w0c49#description-heading

Dark green flyer with white lettering that reads "Development of a Multidimensional Assessment on Depression for Parents by Michelle Abella-Cellona"

Say hello to our new era! 🥂 We have an exciting announcement to share today: we're removing the "beta" label in KCWorks!

Read more about a few of the recent upgrades we've made in KCWorks. There is so much more to come! https://about.hcommons.org/2025/05/13/kcworks-moving-ahead/

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Here is another book review for our #ResearchSpotlights! This review by Sevket Akyildiz is of Lee Brosa's "An Introduction to Coping with Stress." Check out the link to learn more about it! 📘 👀 https://works.hcommons.org/records/shmcn-aqs61

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Hi Mastodon! 👋 We recently added a bunch of new followers to our roster, so it's about time for another introduction.

We're Knowledge Commons, a flexible, open toolkit built by researchers! Our tools are free for everyone, but if your institution or organization is interested in supporting our project and shaping the future of scholarly communication, please reach out. 😊

Learn more: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/gpCL0ARaLG8

Knowledge Commons boosted:

Kicking off a fantastic line up of speakers for this month are Kathleen Fitzpatrick and Jim Groom on Reclaim TV. Tune in tomorrow, Friday, May 9 at 12pm ET - Register now https://events.reclaimhosting.com/event/kathleen-fitzpatrick-and-jim-groom-on-reclaim-tv/?ref=blog.reclaimhosting.com

Knowledge Commons boosted:

Yesterday, we tested the resilience of our backup and restore procedure at Knowledge Commons. A great outcome, though we found one critical aspect that we had to resolve. We now know, 100%, that we can recover from a disaster. Because we tried it.

https://about.hcommons.org/2025/05/08/ensuring-the-reliability-and-durability-of-the-knowledge-commons-infrastructure/

The first Saturday of May is National Free Comic Book Day, and today's #ResearchSpotlight combines comics with mental health! Check out this journal article by Anthony Farthing and Ernesto Priego about the use of comic books as mental health resources 😀 https://works.hcommons.org/records/1ecbj-tw354

Mustard yellow flyer with white lettering that reads "'Graphic Medicine' As a Mental Health Information Resource: Insights from Comics Producers by Anthony Farthing and Ernesto Priego"

Our first #ResearchSpotlight of May is this book review by Sevket Akyildiz
about Dr. Claire Hayes' "Finding Hope in the Age of Anxiety: Recognise it, Acknowledge it and Take Your Power Back." https://works.hcommons.org/records/tff7v-k1m84

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We’ve recently committed to adopting the Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure and have completed our first audit! 💕 We’re pleased with our progress toward many of the POSI goals, though there are several where we have some significant work ahead. Learn more on our blog and view the full audit: https://about.hcommons.org/2025/05/06/standing-by-our-principles/

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May is National Mental Health Awareness Month, and we will share our #ResearchSpotlights around this theme. Stay tuned as we amplify deposits made to KC Works that reflect people's efforts to highlight different mental health problems across various age groups, environments, and cultures 🧠 ❤️‍🩹

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In keeping with our commitment to be a platform for everyone and a good partner to both our current organizational members and those who wish to join us, the Knowledge Commons team recently completed two important reports: the Voluntary Product Accessibility Template (VPAT) and the Higher Education Community Vendor Assessment Toolkit (HECVAT)!

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Here is our last #ResearchSpotlight of the month! This deposit is a syllabus by Bethany Laursen for a course about the historical roots of modern environmental problems in the United States and globally. 📖 💚 https://works.hcommons.org/records/ezsjm-s0q98

Teal flyer with white lettering that reads "CSUS 310- History of Environmental Thought and Sustainability by Bethany Laursen"

"It’s particularly devastating for us, not just because of the loss of funding, and loss of funding is important, but the loss of the impact that we’re going to be able to have" @kfitz #NEH #humanities

https://statenews.com/article/2025/04/wholesale-slaughter-msu-loses-10-grants-amid-national-endowment-for-the-humanities-cuts

The schedueld KCWorks maintenance is completed. Thank you all for your patience!

We will be conducting maintenance on KCWorks at approximately 4am ET on Friday, April 25. There will be a short period of downtime. Thanks in advance for your patience as we continue to make updates to our system! 😊

Here we have yet another #ResearchSpotlight for the month of April! This deposit is a journal article by Jeremy Kidwell about the intersections between religion, environmental values, and environmental politics. We still have one more deposit before the month ends, so stay tuned! 🌳 ✨ https://works.hcommons.org/records/h9967-7r631#description-heading

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